How to fix an out of sync password issue in SharePoint 2010 ?

Published by Jacob Martin on November 25, 2013

SharePoint 2010 stores service account passwords in the configuration database. If you attempt to change the password in the AD and on the service which use it, then this will break the SharePoint. It is important to understand that how SharePoint stores and changes passwords in case there is trouble. The passwords are stored and encrypted themselves in the Config DB. This becomes necessary so that you don’t have to enter every password at the timing of joining a new server to the farm. In SharePoint 2010, the passwords are stored in the config DB and then the server are in the farm are updated through Timer Jobs.

When you change the passwords, they are changed in the Config DV and after that a Timer Job is created which runs on all the servers in the farm. When you execute the steps are that are given below, it is recommended to them at a time and make sure that one password is changed on every machine before moving to the next password. You can keep track of the Timer Jobs in Central Admin and then in Monitoring and at last Check Job Status. If one of the Password Timer Jobs fails then do not change the next password. You should figure out why the job failed and fix it before moving on.

SharePoint 2010 stores service account passwords in the configuration database. If you try to change the password in the AD and on the service which use it, it will break SharePoint. So to fix the issue, you should do the following:

• First, you have to Log on to SharePoint 2010 server as an admin same as the account is used to install SharePoint.
• Then open up the SharePoint PowerShell command and Set-SP Managed account and use existing password, after that Identity Senv; user domain/SPS Admin where SPS Admin is known as service account which had its changed password in the AD.
• After this, you will be directed for the new password for SPS Admin.
• Then you have to run “Repair- SP Managed Account Development so the password can be verified which are now in sync and then.
• Run the repair- SP Managed Account development so to verify that you have not got the message. The password which is currently stored in SharePoint is not the same as the current password for the account within Active Directory. So to fix with the PowerShell, you should run Set-SP Managed Account-Use Existing Password.
• At last the Set-Sp Managed Account-Use Existing Password will update the config database and service which is used by this account.